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Engagement in migrant organizations for immigrant integration: A mixed-method study with Peruvians in Chile
Immigrant communities in Chile face barriers to their integration, in the form of discrimination and social exclusion. Psychology of liberation claims that, when minority groups experience oppressing conditions, community engagement can be a path toward integration. Nevertheless, community participa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8801292/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35125972 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12134-021-00928-9 |
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author | Marzana, Daniela Damia, Sara Martinez Marta, Elena Pozzi, Maura Martínez, Maria Loreto |
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description | Immigrant communities in Chile face barriers to their integration, in the form of discrimination and social exclusion. Psychology of liberation claims that, when minority groups experience oppressing conditions, community engagement can be a path toward integration. Nevertheless, community participation has been mainly studied in North America and Europe. Through a concurrent nested mixed-method design, this study explores the relation between community engagement and perception of integration of Peruvian immigrants in Santiago de Chile. One hundred and ten Peruvians (age range 19 to 52 years), engaged in migrant organizations (MOs), completed a self-report questionnaire that aims to identify the predictors of integration based on psychosocial perspective (education), acculturation (national identity and ethnic identity), and liberation psychology literature (perceived institutional sensitivity, knowledge of the Chilean culture and laws). Additionally, 18 Peruvian leaders (ages 31 to 56 years) were interviewed in order to explore intergroup relations and organizational strategies that their MOs use to enhance integration. An interesting and novel finding points to the role of a Latin-American identity that appears to have potential negative consequences in maintaining the status quo for the social exclusion that Peruvians currently face. |
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spelling | pubmed-88012922022-01-31 Engagement in migrant organizations for immigrant integration: A mixed-method study with Peruvians in Chile Marzana, Daniela Damia, Sara Martinez Marta, Elena Pozzi, Maura Martínez, Maria Loreto J Int Migr Integr Article Immigrant communities in Chile face barriers to their integration, in the form of discrimination and social exclusion. Psychology of liberation claims that, when minority groups experience oppressing conditions, community engagement can be a path toward integration. Nevertheless, community participation has been mainly studied in North America and Europe. Through a concurrent nested mixed-method design, this study explores the relation between community engagement and perception of integration of Peruvian immigrants in Santiago de Chile. One hundred and ten Peruvians (age range 19 to 52 years), engaged in migrant organizations (MOs), completed a self-report questionnaire that aims to identify the predictors of integration based on psychosocial perspective (education), acculturation (national identity and ethnic identity), and liberation psychology literature (perceived institutional sensitivity, knowledge of the Chilean culture and laws). Additionally, 18 Peruvian leaders (ages 31 to 56 years) were interviewed in order to explore intergroup relations and organizational strategies that their MOs use to enhance integration. An interesting and novel finding points to the role of a Latin-American identity that appears to have potential negative consequences in maintaining the status quo for the social exclusion that Peruvians currently face. Springer Netherlands 2022-01-31 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8801292/ /pubmed/35125972 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12134-021-00928-9 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Article Marzana, Daniela Damia, Sara Martinez Marta, Elena Pozzi, Maura Martínez, Maria Loreto Engagement in migrant organizations for immigrant integration: A mixed-method study with Peruvians in Chile |
title | Engagement in migrant organizations for immigrant integration: A mixed-method study with Peruvians in Chile |
title_full | Engagement in migrant organizations for immigrant integration: A mixed-method study with Peruvians in Chile |
title_fullStr | Engagement in migrant organizations for immigrant integration: A mixed-method study with Peruvians in Chile |
title_full_unstemmed | Engagement in migrant organizations for immigrant integration: A mixed-method study with Peruvians in Chile |
title_short | Engagement in migrant organizations for immigrant integration: A mixed-method study with Peruvians in Chile |
title_sort | engagement in migrant organizations for immigrant integration: a mixed-method study with peruvians in chile |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8801292/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35125972 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12134-021-00928-9 |
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